Swim Quick for Shoes Men Barefoot Mid Pool Women Sports for Dry Water Aqua Socks Yoga Barerun Surf Black Beach git status, git add, git commit, and git checkout are common commands so it is a good idea to have abbreviations for them.

We’ve already talked about commit and status commands. In the previous lesson we covered the log command and will get to know the checkout command very soon. The most important thing to learn from this lesson is that you can type git st wherever you had to type git status. Best of all, the git hist command will help you avoid the really long log command.

Go ahead and try using the new commands.

02 Define the hist alias in the .gitconfig file

For the most part, I will continue to type out the full command in these instructions. The only exception is that I will use the hist alias defined above, when I need to see the git log. Make sure you have a hist alias setup in your .gitconfig file before continuing if you wish to repeat my actions.

03Type and Dump

We’ve added a few aliases for commands we haven’t yet discussed. We will talk about the git branch command very soon, and the git cat-file command is useful for exploring git.

04 Command aliases (optional)

If your shell supports aliases, or shortcuts, you can add aliases on this level, too. I use:

The go abbreviation for git checkout is very useful, allowing me to type:

go

to checkout a particular branch.

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